Thursday, November 14, 2013

Numerical Modeling of the Sulfur Poisoning Effect on the Ni-YSZ Porous Anode of SOFCs

224th ECS (Electrochemical Society) Meeting, Abstract #346
Numerical Modeling of the Sulfur Poisoning Effect on the Ni-YSZ Porous Anode of SOFCs
Negar Manafi (a), Kunal Karan (b)
negar.manafi@chee.queensu.ca
kkaran@ucalgary.ca
a Queens-RMC Fuel Cell Research Centre 945 Princess Street, 2nd floor Kingston, Ontario K7L 5L9ıCanada
b Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4 Canada
Presence of H2S in the fuel can have adverse effect on the performance of Solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) because it can poison the Ni-based anodes. Poisoning occurs by sulfur adsorption on the electrochemically active sites on Ni. This study is aimed at predicting the effect of the sulfur poisoning on the performance of SOFC with porous Ni- YSZ anode.
The paper consists of two parts: (i) Modification of the kinetic expression for hydrogen electro-oxidation reaction at anode, and (ii) Implementation of the new kinetic formulation to an existing along-channel twodimensional porous Ni-YSZ half-cell model.
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